Prayer #2

THERE IS NEVER WITHOUT YOU

Even when i am apart from you

still i am a part of you

like a drop of water from the sea,

now rising into sky

you paint clouds with me.

then drop me down to ground

to quench the thirst of wheat,

feed the bellies of children,

filling me with appreciation

and compassion for all life,

I weep and you seep out

from my eyes, roll down

my cheeks,

holy tracks of my tears..

there is no escaping you is there?

even when i abandon myself

and tell myself the lie that i am alone,

then finally turn to you in my grief and fear

i see once again that i was never

out of your embrace for a moment.

I am iron resisting Rumi's magnet,

oxygen refraining from the fire,

fear fighting off the perfect serenity of love.

then once more as often before

i open again to you my friend,

I play joyously when i surrender,

become your conscious, willing flute.

You conduct your breath through me,

 I am always an instrument of

your divine orchestration.